| From the ancient city of prague?
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| From prague came a pair of high heeled shoes,
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| With a kiss or two came the high heeled shoes
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| From the ancient city of prague.
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| What was sent to the soldier’s wife
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| From oslo over the sound?
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| From oslo he sent her a collar of fur,
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| How it pleases her, the little collar of fur
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| From oslo over the sound.
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| What was sent to the soldier’s wife
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| From the wealth of amsterdam?
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| From amsterdam, he got her a hat,
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| She looked sweet in that,
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| In her little dutch hat
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| From the wealth of amsterdam.
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| What was sent to the soldier’s wife
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| From brussels in belgian land?
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| From brussels he sent her the laces so rare
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| To have and to wear,
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| All those laces so rare
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| From brussels in belgian land.
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| What was sent to the soldier’s wife
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| From paris, city of light?
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| From paris he sent her a silken gown,
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| It was ended in town, that silken gown,
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| From paris, city of light.
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| What was sent to the soldier’s wife
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| From the south, from bucharest?
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| From bucharest he got her this shirt
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| Embroidered and pert, that rumanian shirt
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| From the south, from bucharest.
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| What was sent to the soldier’s wife
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| From the far-off russian land?
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| From russia there came just a widow’s veil
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| For her dead to bewail in her widow’s veil
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| From the far-off russian land,
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| From the far-off russian land. |